Biopolitical War

From Geography

The concept of Biopolitical War aims that in a lot of current wars the warfare is no longer between armies, but innocent civilians are the targets. After the terrorists attacks on the Worl Trade Center and the Pentagon, Derek Gregory started to trace the contours of the emerging ‘war on terror’. Because of his good understanding of the continued power of Orientalism he wrote books about the British and American involvements in the ‘Middle East’ and how this involvement affected the cultural, political and military responses to 9/11. “It shows how war connects the abstractions of geopolitics- the pronouncements of politicians, the strategies of generals- to the lives and deaths of countless thousands of ordinary men and woman” (Gregory, n.d.).

Gregory is also busy with a research program on the University of British Columbia at the department of Geography to provide just such a critical understanding of bombing by locating it in the transition from modern to late modern war. The research is called; Killing Space: Targeting, Technoculture and the Art of Bombing (UBC, n.d.)

References

Gregory, D. (n.d.) Profile. http://web.mac.com/derekgregory/iWeb/Site/Profile.html

Universtiy of British Columbia (n.d.). Geopolitics, Biopolitics and Security: Killing Space: Targeting, Technoculture and Art of Bombing. http://www.geog.ubc.ca/research/geopolitics.html

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